It looks like the fully electric market is getting soft across the board, not just Tesla. Toyota is doing well with its hybrid approach to the market, and Ford is starting to move in that direction too.  That Tesla has other “issues” is not helping, but the whole market looks like it’s shifting away from fully…

It would be helpful if this listed which brands allow you to use third party toner/ink.  Being tied to proprietary consumables is a large negative, for me anyway.

I haven’t lived in the south for a decade now, but at the time, black widows would congregate by the dozens in our outbuildings. One shed had so many we were scared to put poison out for fear they’d scatter into our house. We moved instead. Not because of them, but that was a big red hourglass of an incentive.

My point…

I do always feel more comfortable when I see an ATM while on international travel and have fallen back on using them to get some quick cash while on the road from time to time. But otherwise, more convenient tools are available.  There isn’t much a domestic machine can do for me anymore.

Thanks for the follow up! It’s interesting how little we know about so many natural areas, and how well things can “hide” in it. The world is a big place.

I wonder how common it is for an insect such as this to hitch a ride on a cross-country truck, for example one moving between various walmarts and distribution centers across the country. It would explain how a lone bug ended up out of place without any others being found.

I just hope Progress 82 is able to stay away from any open hotel windows.

I don’t know, I been around Legion Field after a concert. (Though I still love the the brilliance of the parking lot pickup truck entrepreneurs that were selling beer for a $1 and then access to a toilet for $1.)

I worked for a while at one university that legally had to make salaries “public”. So they kept the records in a single physical book locked in a room at the library. You could request access but couldn’t bring in a camera or make photocopies. They clearly wanted it to be difficult and hiden, while still meeting the…

I’m all for salary transparency. At my first real job, I stumbled into the salary records of the company I worked at (in reports thrown in the dumpster behind the building no less). It really opened my eyes and showed me that you have to demand your value. But to do that, you have to know what the playing field looks…

Or schools, or supermarkets...

I am not sure I’m comfortable with the banning of Donda Academy kids playing basketball. Granted, I’m not following this story closely, but what is the value in limiting what these kids can access? (Are there any actual kids there yet?)

I would be interested in the impact at the smaller level. I have seen a pretty big change in individual transportation within college towns, denser cities, and even some trails with the advent e-bikes, scooters, and skateboards. These have certainly made a wider radius of livability available to those without the need…

The intention is that the AND describes the list. It contains frightening spacewalks AND cool ones. Just like your local multiplex shows both scary movies and funny ones. I suspect you don’t imagine all the movies there must be both scary AND funny.

It took me so many years to learn this lesson.

We have a number of restaurants here in Boulder that are cash-only rather than credit-only. During the height of the pandemic, they started taking credit cards, but have since transitioned back to cash-only. They all have an ATM somewhere in-house to use for those that forgot the rules. So they not only don’t pay the…

At a restaurant, this isn’t true when they bring the card machine to the table. It’s a one step transaction. Having to take either a card or cash back to a register makes it a longer process.  If the server can make change right then and there, you may be right (e.g. this is often the case a bars).

There have been a number of proposals for a long rifle-type system located on a high altitude mountainside close to the equator (say in the Andes). Acceleration forces might be the same, but the need to engineer for angular momentum stress survival would be removed. I’m not sure I see the advantage here, other than…

What I was taught (decades ago) was they harvested them with intent. They mostly took the smaller oysters and left the larger ones to support better breeding. Assuming that theory is still accepted, it’s maybe not quite cultivating, but not just simple gathering of targets of opportunity either.

The apalachicola oyster beds near where I grew up were sustainable for a quite a while under a capitalist system. They recently shut down due mostly to drought, not overharvesting. There is a divide within the community, but many support the “temporary” halt until drought conditions improve (hopefully) and the beds…